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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Death by shaky camera, Alex Salmond’s RT show is remarkably stale, Jackson Carlaw nails it by saying “the only guests Alex Salmond can muster are old pals”, Salmond boasted that it would be an agenda-setting show; someone going to tell him TV Presenting 101; ‘the story’ is the ‘star’, as to reading out tweets Alex Salmond needs to grow up

Dear All

The Alex Salmond Show or as some wags call it, the Alex
Salmondski Show, the slide downwards from dignity and grace continues unabated,
oh how the mighty have fallen.This seems to be a truth in European politics that towards
the end of their tenure, certain politicians just keep making bad decisions. Some
decisions however end up being the one that ‘crosses the rubicon’, from there it
is said there is no way back.

One of the dreadful parts of the Salmond show is reading out of
tweets, as if to justify his show’s existence, it shows a lack of confidence.

If you look at this episode, which was done for St Andrew’s day, you will see
that rather than being an upbeat show, it has a sense of gloom in the air, like
someone just lost.

For a show with supposed ambition, it is certainly lacking,
and who thought it was a good idea for Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh to do a piece on
tartan?

If this is the fluffy piece, then clearly those behind the show have a
steep learning curve to go through. Oh how the wannabe mighty have fallen in
the case of Tasmina Ahmed-Shiekh, one day and MP at the House of Commons and
then a few short months scratching out an existence doing what exactly?

Will Tasmina be doing a spot promoting and selling vacuum
cleaners down the line, after all if you aspire to be serious then surely a
piece about hoovering is required viewing for the masses.

As to the Kenny MacAskill appearance, this was just rank, hashing
over a dead case involving a now dead man, was this supposed to be a 'history
moment' or just plain bad taste because Salmond needed a ‘filler’.

In episode 4, we had the Brexit special, the latter half of
the show featured disgraced SNP MP Angus MacNeil who was outed in a 'three in a
bed' romp while his then wife was ‘up the stick’, commonly known as preggers.

Miss Cowdy who ended up with SNP MP Stewart Hosie is said to
have told her friends that she saw SNP MPs as romantic revolutionaries, describing
them as 'the Mujahideen of British politicians'.

In the jihad to see who would win Cowdy, Angus MacNeil lost
out, whether you view that as a good thing or not depends on your taste, but
Cowdy was better looking than Hosie and MacNeil’s wives.

In the SNP, there is the Court of King Alex and the Court of
Queen Nicola, it seems that the Salmond
Court is willing to support his RT show but
Sturgeon’s crowd aren’t. Having Angus MacNeil on we are told was without
permission of SNP bosses, but I doubt that anything will come of it. If you
think about it, as Nicola Sturgeon has destroyed SNP support, the nationalist trend is
downwards, the SNP bosses will probably have in the back of their minds ‘what
if’, what if Salmond returns as leader in the future.

So, Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil becomes the first SNP
politician in office to appear on The Alex Salmond Show, what a badge of honour.
This part of the Salmond show had an SNP Fringe meeting about it although Nigel
Evans MP joined the chat, he supports Brexit.

As Jackson Carlaw aptly put it:

“It seems the only guests Alex Salmond can muster are old
pals. It’s hardly the agenda-setting show he boasted it would be”.

Although RT is registered as a broadcaster, and it does some
interesting shows and documentaries, the Alex Salmond Show is remarkably stale,
and muted, it seems that Alex Salmond forgot he is the presenter whose job it
is to make ‘the story’ centre stage rather than him.

Certainly Alex Salmond is no Andrew Neil of the BBC, and it
shows.

Scottish Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton said:

"When this show was announced I suggested that the
former First Minister might want to use it to highlight the plight of some of
those pushing back against the repressive Putin regime, sadly the quality of guest
has been rather lower. Nicola Sturgeon will have her head in her hands that
another SNP parliamentarian is indulging Putin's propaganda channel."

Finally, I don’t know about you but if I was giving tips for
the show, I would say, the lightening is crap; the cameraman needs to hold the
camera steady; someone needs to get rid of the ‘haunted’ feel, stop reading out
tweets, it is rather sad and pathetic and set an agenda..... if capable.

And address this, “It seems the only guests Alex Salmond can
muster are old pals. It’s hardly the agenda-setting show he boasted it would be”.

6 comments:

Can you help me understand a couple things George?1. Why is Tasmina 'scratching out a living' on a little watched and lesser regarded satellite TV channel instead of returning to her legal career (or fall back to acting)? Could it be that like her former political boss it wasn't that successful?

2. What is it that attracts RT, and LBC, to hiring him in the first place? It can't be that it's due to any current influence, maybe novelty and the fact that he riles the viewers and listeners ?

1. Why is Tasmina 'scratching out a living' on a little watched and lesser regarded satellite TV channel instead of returning to her legal career (or fall back to acting)? Could it be that like her former political boss it wasn't that successful?

Tasmina had some rather bad PR regarding her legal career, which hit the public domain, this might reduce her opportunities in someone taking her on.

2. What is it that attracts RT, and LBC, to hiring him in the first place? It can't be that it's due to any current influence, maybe novelty and the fact that he riles the viewers and listeners ?

LBC has a habit of featuring politicians and giving them slots, this is cross party, so I suspect that in the interests of fairness, they felt maybe they had to be seen to be fair to the SNP as well.

As to RT, well this is a puzzle indeed, Salmond’s show isn’t great, and although there are much better shows on RT which cover politics and finance, probably they thought this might have some value; however I doubt the content so far has impressed them.

Total amateur crap, looks cheap, he's no presenter, Tasmina the roving reporter, give me strength. This woman's voice alone is enough to ensure ratings will remain low. Alex has made an utter fool of himself, deluded idiot. He should have retired gracefully but this proves he's needy, the spotlight has faded Alex, go put your feet up and shut the fuck up, you've got enough in the bank. He's a laughing stock.